[desktop-discuss] Re: suspend/resume (was: How to halt system directly from Java Desktop System?)

[Alan Coopersmith]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> On 4/30/07, Brian Nitz <Brian.Nitz at sun.com> wrote:
>> We had a discussion after the most recent Irish Opensolaris Users Group
>> meeting about whether as suspend and hibernate improve better and as
>> memory technology improves (e.g. flash memory), we might eventually move
>> away from the paradigm of starting up (hardware detection, loading libs
>> into memory...) and shutting down as part of daily work flow.
> 
> But are suspend/hibernate currently usable at all under (Open)Solaris?

Not on x86 yet - there's an internal project which has suspend-to-RAM
working on Ultra 20 workstations, but a lot of driver updates will be
needed to make it work on other hardware.

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